توضیحات

A picture is worth a thousand words. This is an inspirational quote that comes to our mind every time we review the collected images of clinical cases. Looking back at medical records and recalling the situation of each patient, the educational process of diagnosis and treatment, as well as our experiences after reaching a definitive diagnosis on the disease, we realize that each picture has a story. Therefore, we have also gained a deeper insight into two criteria that need to be fulfilled to be a good physician: (1) medical skills and (2) empathy toward patients.

This brings to memory the epitaph of an American physician, Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau: “To Cure Sometimes, To Relieve Often, To Comfort Always.” Truly, this is particularly the case with medical practitioners working on rarely studied oral mucosal diseases. We are passionate about this profession. We enjoy the ideas and discoveries in the diagnosis and treatment of each patient. Besides, we also enjoy the recognition of our careers, as well as the sentiment behind the story of each patient.

Due to the abovementioned reasons, we desired to write Case Based Oral Mucosal Diseases as a reference book on the clinically common and rare cases of oral mucosal diseases. One of our students, Jin Xin, also repeatedly suggested, while arranging the image resources of clinical cases, that we should not leave them as they are. After careful consideration, we began to write Case Based Oral Mucosal Diseases book based on those pictures of clinical cases with the involvement and support of Dr. Jin Xin, Assoc. Prof. Jiang Lu, Assoc. Prof. Zhou Yu, and Assoc. Prof. Dan Hong-Xia from the Department of Oral Mucosal Diseases.